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The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary

The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary

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Series: New Americanists

AnthropologyLatino Studies

ISBN10: 0822337894
ISBN13: 9780822337898
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 4 2006
Pages: 536
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary history, the distinguished scholar Ramón Saldívar establishes Paredes's preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south Texas borderlands. At the same time, Saldívar reveals Paredes as a precursor to the new American cultural studies by showing how he perceptively negotiated the contradictions between the national and transnational forces at work in the Americas in the nascent era of globalization.

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